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After 17 Months, Boeing, Bell Helicopter Textron's Aircraft Flies Again.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2002
By Richard Whittle, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 30--WASHINGTON--The V-22 Osprey took a step toward redemption Wednesday by flying for the first time in 17 months, but the tiltrotor aircraft must be near perfect in future tests to assure its survival, experts said.
"It has to be fairly flawless," defense industry analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group said of the Osprey, which is coproduced by Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth and Boeing Co. "There's not a lot of margin for error."
The V-22 uses two wingtip rotors to take off and land like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. The revolutionary aircraft had been grounded since December 2000, after the second of two crashes that year...
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